India

| Green Sugar Sand | The western edge of the southern Indian state of Kerala is virtually a long beach, but this isn’t the Costa Brava or even Goa. Only relatively few stretches are traveler-ready, and these, like Kovalam in the far south, are rapidly becoming overdeveloped to the point of serious strain on their […]

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| Water, Water Everywhere | In the state of Kerala, greenest in all India, there are not 1 but 2 monsoon seasons each year. But that is not the water that creates our reality just now. We’re in the Kerala backwaters … a lattice-like network of waterways—29 lakes, 41 rivers, estuaries and canals—that parallel India’s […]

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| Mother India’s Mantra | We come to the sprawling Asian subcontinent for the sweep of its history, its spicy curry of culture and geography, its ancient pathways to spiritual discovery: to see how 1.2 billion Indians co-exist while living life at the extremes. Indian trip planning invariably includes precautionary advice. Against getting sick or […]

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